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Culture : Museums |
   Narodni technicke muzeum | |
| Adress: | Kostelní 42 |
| Praha 7 | |
| Phone: | 0420 2 20 39 92 42 |
| Fax: | +420 233 37 18 01 |
| Narodni kulturni pamatka Vysehrad | |
| Adress: | V pevnosti 159/5b |
| Praha 2 | |
| Phone: | +420 241 410 348 |
| Fax: | +420 241 410 247 |
| Open daily 9.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. | |
| The National Museum | |
| Adress: | Václavské náměstí 68 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 2421 4537 |
| The Wax Museum | |
| Adress: | 28. října, Můstek |
| Praha 1 | |
| Open daily 10.00-20.00, here it costs 99 Kc for adults and 49 Kc for children. I say 'Museums' because there are actually two of them within walking distance of each other. Like all Wax Museums, the collections in both are mixtures of very passable copies of famous figures (with an obvious lean to those of this part of the world) and embarrasingly awful ones that you have no hope of recognising. My children loved them. | |
| Museum of Decorative Arts | |
| Adress: | 17. listopadu 2 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 2481 1241 |
| (open: Tues.-Sun., 10.00-18.00). Could be a great museum as they have great stores of Art Deco in store somewhere. Unfortunately, for reasons best known to themselves, there is only a little on show. Therefore it is not desperately impressive. A fair bit of glass. | |
| The Wax Museums | |
| Adress: | Národní třída 25 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Open daily 10.00-20.00, a family ticket of two adults and two children costs 250 Kc.) I say 'Museums' because there are actually two of them within walking distance of each other. Like all Wax Museums, the collections in both are mixtures of very passable copies of famous figures (with an obvious lean to those of this part of the world) and embarrasingly awful ones that you have no hope of recognising. My children loved them. | |
| The Museum of Military Resistance | |
| Adress: | Hradčanské náměstí 2 |
| Praha 1 | |
| (Open: Tu., Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun., 09.30-18.00). The Czechs are famous for their resistance to invading forces (and unfortunately they have had a lot of practice). This museum is primarily to show how the Czech resistance operated during the Second World War. | |
| The Gallery of the City of Prague | |
| Adress: | Staroměstské náměstí - Staroměstská radnice |
| Praha 1 | |
| Changing exhibits, but mainly photographic. | |
| Bertramka (Mozartovo) muzeum | |
| Adress: | Mozartova 169 Praha 5 |
| Praha 5 | |
| Phone: | 551 483, 532 426 |
| Open daily 9.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m. | |
| Strahov Library Museum | |
| Adress: | Strahovské nádvoří 1 |
| Praha 1 - Hradčany | |
| Impressive display of ancient manuscripts and Bibles. All perfectly preserved. | |
| Muzeum Prahy | |
| Adress: | Kožná 1 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 2422 3696 |
| The Toy Museum | |
| Adress: | Jiřská ulice (Pražský hrad) |
| Praha 1 | |
| A clever idea, this one. When the children are whining about having seen too much culture in the castle and surrounding grounds you can bribe them off with a trip here. There is a large and well presented selection of toys from the entire history of the art of keeping children happily occupied. I feel I could learn some lessons from the ancients in this exhibition. | |
| St. George's Monastery | |
| Adress: | Jiřské náměstí 33 (v areálu hradu) |
| Praha 1 | |
| Very good collection of Gothic bits and pieces. Plus an exhibition of other, early Czech paintings and sculptures. | |
| Podskalska Custom House | |
| Adress: | Rašínovo nábřeží |
| Praha 2 | |
| open: Wed. Thu., 10.00-12.30, 13.30-18.00) This located by the river for the reason that it houses a history of the steam engine and its uses for navigation. The building has been a centre for sailers and boatmen in general for many years. | |
| Pamatnik narodniho odboje | |
| Adress: | U památníku 2 |
| Praha 3 | |
| Phone: | 2020 4926, 2020 4933 |
| Komensky Museum | |
| Adress: | Valdštejnské náměstí |
| Praha 1 | |
| (open: Tues.- Sat., 10.00-18.00). Comenius is a reasonably famous name in the West. (Even I had heard of him). He dedicated his life to the development of education techniques for children. His ideas were very advanced and still provide a basis for many pedagogical methods used today. | |
| Museum of Czech Music | |
| Adress: | Novotného lávka 1 |
| Praha 1 | |
| The Police Museum | |
| Adress: | Ke Karlovu 1 |
| Praha 2 | |
| Phone: | 2413 5707, 298 940 |
| The Museum of Aviation | |
| Adress: | Mladoboleslavská - letiště Kbely |
| Praha 9 | |
| Phone: | 2020 7504 |
| (open: Tue., Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun., 09.30-18.00). A huge number of flying machines on display, both indoors and outside. Also other fighting machines such as tanks. | |
| Czech Museum of Fine Arts | |
| Adress: | Husova 19-21 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Mainly contemporary exhibitions of paintings. Changes regularly. | |
| Naprstek Museum (Asian, American and African Culture) | |
| Adress: | Betlemské náměstí 1 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 2421 4537 |
| (open: 09.00-12.00, 12.45-16.30). Why anyone would want to travel to Prague from North America to see a museum about Red Indian culture is beyond me. But maybe it is good for a particularly rainy day. | |
| The Museum of Czech History | |
| Adress: | Jiřská 1 - Lobkovický palác |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 537 306 |
| (open: Tues.-Sun. 09.00-16.30). This is really an insight into the development of the Czech Republic. An interesting display. | |
| The Museum of the City of Prague | |
| Adress: | Na poříčí 52 |
| Praha 2 | |
| Phone: | 2422 3179 |
| (open: Tues.,-Sun., 10.00-18.00) A nice look at the development of Prague with a famous model of the old part of the City. Much of it is concerned with artifacts and decorations of the various periods. | |
| The Sternberg Palace | |
| Adress: | Hradčanské náměstí 15 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | 2051 4599 |
| This is actually a large national gallery exhibiting mainly C19 C20 French paintings. A few other European works also on show. | |
| Jewish Museum in Prague | |
| Adress: | U Starého Hřbitova 3a |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | +420 222 317 191 |
| Fax: | +420 222 317 181 |
| Zbraslav Chateau | |
| Adress: | Zbraslav |
| Praha | |
| &This is a Cistercian monastery situated in the village of Zbraslav, about 11 kms outside Prague. It is another large depository of Czech history, with many C19 and C20 sculptures. The gardens are spectacular and make a superb venue for a summer's day picnic. | |
| Postovni muzeum | |
| Adress: | Nové mlýny 2 |
| Praha 1 | |
| Phone: | +420 222 312 060 |
| Fax: | +420 222 311 930 |
| Display of the classic post marks of Europe, occasional exhibitions. | |
